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PRESS RELEASEPRESS RELEASE SEMBCORP’S PIONEERING HIGH CONCENTRATION INDUSTRIAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT BUSINESS EXPANDS TO NANJING – Completes a second plant in China capable of treating high concentration wastewater without pre-treatment by customers NANJING, March 10, 2010 – Sembcorp has successfully expanded its pioneering high concentration industrial wastewater treatment business in China, with the completion of a second plant in the country. The 12,500 cubic metres per day plant in Nanjing will be capable of treating industrial wastewater, including industrial wastewater with a high concentration of up to 4,000 milligrammes per litre chemical oxygen demand. This plant will be Sembcorp’s second in China to treat third party customers’ high concentration industrial wastewater directly from source without customers having to invest in pre-treatment facilities. Government regulations usually require industrial companies to pre-treat their wastewater to a chemical oxygen demand of not more than 500 milligrammes per litre, bef ore discharging the wastewater for treatment. The decision to permit industrial companies to discharge their wastewater directly to a facility, without needing the companies to pre-treat the wastewater signifies a new initiative by the government for advanced wastewater management in China. Sembcorp’s earlier 15,000 cubic metres per day plant in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Port Zone, was the first in China where industrial customers were allowed to do away with this pre-treatment step. This saved customers the resources required to build and operate their own pre-treatment facilities, and enabled them to concentrate on their core business. Opened in May 2009, the Zhangjiagang project leveraged on Sembcorp’s successful track record of effectively treating industrial wastewater in Singapore’s Jurong Island petrochemical cluster, and was selected as a government-to-government showcase project for pro